Hands Up for Trad are delighted to announce Tiree Gin sponsorship for this year’s MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. Tyree Gin is made with Kelp & Machair Botanicals from the Inner Hebridean island of Tiree. Alongside the core botanicals, the predominant flavour of Tyree Gin is achieved through six locally foraged botanicals: Eyebright, Ladies […]
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McElhinney & Co – October 2017 Business Limelight of the Month
McElhinney & Co are the recipients of Hands Up for Trad’s Business Limelight Award. The “Limelight’s” are a monthly initiative (launched in October 2012) that recognises the outstanding contributions made by businesses and organisations who contribute, shape and influence the arts and cultural sector in Scotland today. McElhinney & Co are an amazing firm of […]
Don’t miss the Scottish International Storytelling Festival – Friday October 20 until Tuesday October 31
Vikings, legends from the edge of the Arctic Circle and Korean folk tales are all part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival which we launched last week from the roof of Camera Obscura – allowing us to look out across the city and beyond as we get ready to welcome storytellers from across six continents […]
21st Anniversary for the Scots Fiddle Festival
Featuring over 40 musicians and 50 events across one weekend in Edinburgh, Scotland’s largest fiddle festival is celebrating its 21st year with a wealth of distinguished and upcoming talent on the bill. The Friday night concert in The Queen’s Hall kicks off proceedings with Glasgow based acoustic trio Snuffbox, featuring Charlie Stewart, the 2017 BBC Radio […]
Drake Music Scotland Landmark 1997-2017
Drake Music Scotland’s vision is to transform people’s lives through the power of music and boy do they do that! They play a lead role in making Scotland a place where ground-breaking new music featuring skilled musicians and composers with disabilities comes alive for everyone. They reshape the definition of musicians, musical instruments and ensembles, […]
Trad Music Spotlight: INYAL
Hands Up for Trad’s Trad Music Spotlight is a monthly feature on a band or solo artist. It was first launched in February 2015 and features musicians who are working in the trad scene – both in Scotland and around the world. We asked INYAL a few questions. What’s happening? We’ve just finished recording our […]
Search for young composer with the piping x factor
28th September 2017, A competition to find Scotland’s next superstar young composer and an iconic new tune for our national instrument has launched today; Piping Hit 2018. Youngsters across Scotland are being asked whether they think they have the x factor and to compose a hit tune suitable for the Great Highland Bagpipe. The competition is open to every school pupil in Scotland. Music charity […]
Fyne Fiddles Volume 1, Book Launch & Workshop Weekend 1st – 3rd December
Fyne Fiddles has grown out of a music writing, arranging & teaching partnership between Amy Geddes & Donald Knox. Since 2014 they have been leading a series of weekend workshops at Ardkinglas House at the head of Loch Fyne. Inspired by this beautiful setting and time spent there with students, they have created a suite of fiddle […]
Runrig – The Last Dance
After 45 wonderful years in the music business, we have finally taken the very difficult and heart wrenching decision to pull the curtain down on our long career, in 2018. We are now simply at that point in time where longevity and circumstance have to be balanced against what is right for the art and […]
2017 BLAS FESTIVAL SUCCESS
This year’s Blas Festival took place between 1 and 9 September with around 40 concerts as well as an array of work in Highland schools and care homes. Among those performing were Skipinnish, Breabach, Mànran and Duncan Chisholm. Ireland’s Sharon Shannon returned, following her debut Blas appearances last year, to join Skerryvore at Eden Court in […]